Security-chipped Credit Cards Will Become the New Standard

On October 1, 2015, the standard for credit and debit cards will be renewed.
Security chips will become the new standard for the credit card industry.
While this change will not be mandated by law, it will represent the result
of a new agreement between the credit card companies, card issuers, and
retailers.

For some time, Europay chipped cards have prevented fraud throughout Europe.
Of course, the United States payment processing industry hopes that these
new cards will do the same in America. This change will shift fraud liability
to retailers and card issuers that do not adopt the new chipped cards
since these new cards are much more difficult to counterfeit. Magnetic
stripe cards, on the other hand, have plagued the credit card industry
for quite some time.

According to the Los Angeles Times, over half of the credit card fraud
in the U.S. involved counterfeit cards. While full compliance is not expected
until 2017, any reduction in the level of card fraud will be beneficial.
The Federal Reserve has calculated that, in 2012, there were 13.7 million
fraudulent credit transactions that total $2.3 billion in charges.

Chip card readers are located on the front of PIN pads. In the U.S., they
may require the use of a PIN or a signature. Some security analysts say
that cards which require a PIN are more secure since signatures are not
verified on a normal basis. Other analysts point out that the more often
a PIN is used, the more chances there are that it can be captured.

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